On May 22, 2026, at 10:15 p.m., Winnipeg Police Service members arrested a 25-year-old man in relation to two incidents that occurred in the Booth neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
At 9:45 p.m., the man attended a restaurant\/bar in the 2700 block of Portage Avenue in an intoxicated state and pointed a handgun indiscriminately in the air after he was refused service. The staff and patrons self-evacuated for their safety and no injuries were reported. The man fled the restaurant on foot without further incident.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 10:00 p.m., the man attended an apartment complex in the 200 block of Booth Drive where he was observed smashing a window while holding the handgun. Police were contacted and officers located and arrested the man in the 200 block of Ronald Street. Officers seized a CO2-powered imitation Glock handgun, CO2 cylinders, and a baton.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old man faces two counts of Possession of a Weapon, and two counts of Mischief Under $5,000.<\/p>\n
He was released on an Undertaking to appear in court at a later date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 22, 2026, at 10:15 p.m., Winnipeg Police Service members arrested a 25-year-old man in relation to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-690723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}